How to insert variables in JavaScript strings?

Question

What's the best way to do insert variables in a string in JavaScript? I'm guessing it's not this:

var coordinates = "x: " + x + ", y: " + y;

In Java, Strings are immutable and doing something like the above would unnecessarily create and throw away Strings. Ruby is similar and has a nice way of doing the above:

coordinates = "x: #{x}, y: #{y}"

Does something similar exist for JavaScript?

Answer 1

Introduced in ES6 as "template strings"

MDN docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals

const name = "Nick"
const greeting = `Hello ${name}`  // "Hello Nick"